Here at FilmDrunk, we’ve long been fans of Al Pacino’s ACTING with a capital A and exclamation point. At his best, he doesn’t chew scenery so much as rip it apart like a Wolverine and have sex with its corpse. Now, Nelson Carvajal, who last gave us Every Best Picture Winner, has given us a supercut called “Pacino: Full Roar,” featuring six solid minutes of Pacino screaming his face off, which begins with this quote:

“I worked with Al Pacino, whose character was crazy. Before every take, he would roar like a lion.” -Robin Williams, co-star on Insomnia.

Two things: one, Al Pacino was playing a perpetually-tired detective who can’t sleep because summer never gets dark in Alaska in Insomnia, and still felt he needed to play it so “big” that he was roaring like a jungle animal. Two, how big do you have to be playing it for ROBIN WILLIAMS to say you’re crazy? “Whoa whoa, Al, this seems a bit… manic, don’t you think?”

Well done, Mr. Carvajal. Suffice to say, you’ve got a… GREAT ASS! And I’ve got my HEAD, AAAAAALL THE WAY UP IT!

Let me say this about Heat: Hank Azaria’s reaction to Pacino in that scene is wildly underrated.

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A million years ago (the 70’s), when Robin Williams was still a comedian, and funny, and Al Pacino got nominated for an award every time he left the house, Williams did a joke about the prevailing complaint about Pacino at the time–that he spoke too *quietly.* Yes, Pacino invented mumbleact. Be careful what you bitch about, America.

03.25.13 at 1:28 pm

Vince Mancini

I’ll say this for R-Dubz, the guy’s fantastic at playing a creepy villain.

I think he realized around that time that he could either keep picking challenging parts and working hard to imbue his characters with a mixture of quiet intensity, desperation, and menace, or he could coast by as shouty-gun for hire and still be acclaimed as one of the greatest actors of his generation.

I think Pacino is at his Pacinoiest in the last scene of The Devil’s Advocate where Keanu Reeves tries to stand in the middle of the cage with the Anderson Silva of scream acting. I don’t understand how Pacino didn’t stroke out during that scene.

The more noticeable because of the contrast between Pacino’s ACTING! and Reeves’ perpetual state of zoned-out bewilderment. Man, that was not a great movie, to the extent that not even gratuitous nudity could remedy its non-greatness.

You know what I’d love to see a supercut of? Someone getting blood, saliva, etc. dripped on them from above, then looking up and either being eaten by a monster or finding a dead body. I watched three movies yesterday (Men in Black & 2 Sci-Fi originals) in which this exact scenario played out.